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The conversational interviews are generally easy. The only challenge is producing a working prototype of a concept after a design meeting with mock peers in a design session. if you didn't lie on your resume you should be fine. The project is defined to be tool agnostic and to simply confirm that you can collaborate and get to a consensus, walk away and create something representative of what was agreed was necessary.
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at DataNet Quality Systems

4.2
Mar 13, 2013

The conversational interviews are generally easy. The only challenge is producing a working prototype of a concept after a design meeting with mock peers in a design session. if you didn't lie on your resume you should be fine. The project is defined to be tool agnostic and to simply confirm that you can collaborate and get to a consensus, walk away and create something representative of what was agreed was necessary.

How would you handle local caching of a web application in case you want that web application to run without an internet connection on the client? (I respond.) Oh, that's a good idea. But wait, we mean just for Chrome? (I respond.) Oh, that would work, too, but we are looking for something specific. (I respond.) Oh, we'll just tell you. You could use Local DB storage using HTML 5. (I respond.) Oh, we know you don't have HTML 5 experience, but we decided to ask the question and waste your time, as well as ours, to try to get a very specific answer out of you, but without giving you a specific question! Isn't this fun?
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IT Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Archstone

3.6
Mar 19, 2013

How would you handle local caching of a web application in case you want that web application to run without an internet connection on the client? (I respond.) Oh, that's a good idea. But wait, we mean just for Chrome? (I respond.) Oh, that would work, too, but we are looking for something specific. (I respond.) Oh, we'll just tell you. You could use Local DB storage using HTML 5. (I respond.) Oh, we know you don't have HTML 5 experience, but we decided to ask the question and waste your time, as well as ours, to try to get a very specific answer out of you, but without giving you a specific question! Isn't this fun?

A burglar is attempting to maximize the amount taken from a set of houses on a street. However, the burglar cannot steal from consecutive houses. First, how would you maximize the amount taken from the houses if no values are known ahead of time? Second, if values are known ahead of time, how would you maximize?
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Senior Software Developer

Interviewed at Orbitz Worldwide

4.1
Jul 14, 2015

A burglar is attempting to maximize the amount taken from a set of houses on a street. However, the burglar cannot steal from consecutive houses. First, how would you maximize the amount taken from the houses if no values are known ahead of time? Second, if values are known ahead of time, how would you maximize?

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